And thus I have given a short, and, I think, true History of the first beginnings of Humane Knowledge; whence the Mind has its first Objects, and by what steps it makes its progress to the laying in, and storing up those Ideas, out of which is to be framed all the Knowledge it is capable of; wherein I must appeal to Experience and Observation, whether I am in the right: The best way to come to Truth, being to examine Things as really they are, and not to conclude they are as we fansie of our selves, or have been taught to imagine by others.